First Lutheran Church Blog
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First Lutheran is a vibrant ELCA congregation gathered from the Greater Portland area and beyond. We worship together each Sunday morning, and offer a variety of Christian education, fellowship, and community outreach activities for all ages.
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At First Lutheran Church, we value and celebrate the richness of God’s creation and offer full welcome and inclusion to all people. Our welcome is as boundless as God’s grace. It is not affected nor limited by distinctions such as age, race, ethnicity, culture, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, political alignment, or ..read more
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Palm Sunday – March 24 Worship with Holy Communion 10:00am Maundy Thursday – March 28 Worship with Absolution and Holy Communion 7:00pm Good Friday – March 29 Readings, Songs & Adoration of the Cross 7:00pm The Resurrection of Our Lord Easter Sunday – March 31 Worship with Holy Communion 10:00am We invite you to join ..read more
First Lutheran Church Blog
7M ago
Lent ends with Holy Week, which begins on Palm Sunday. Holy Week concludes with what we call The Three Days. These are the most important part of the Christian calendar because they mark Jesus’ last days, death and resurrection. While our church will be filled on Easter morning, traditionally there will be smaller attendance on ..read more
First Lutheran Church Blog
7M ago
Join us each Wednesday—March 6th, 13th, and 20th—starting at 6 pm in the FLC Fellowship Hall for a delicious soup supper, with bread, dessert and drinks and good fellowship, with members and friends from First, Emmaus and Trinity Lutheran Churches. Then, following dinner, at 7 pm, join us in the sanctuary for Lenten worship featuring ..read more
First Lutheran Church Blog
7M ago
Transition times like what we’re in here at First Lutheran Church are times of liminality. “Liminality” comes from the Latin limen, meaning “threshold.” It is like standing on the threshold between one room and another. It is an evolving state of an individual, place, organization, or institution, in the space between and an ending and ..read more
First Lutheran Church Blog
7M ago
During this Thanksgiving month in our worship and life we are focusing on what it means to respond with gratitude for all that God has done for us and all He gives to us. Our worship services this month are featuring special testimonies about how the speakers have been blessed and what they did in ..read more
First Lutheran Church Blog
7M ago
Members of the Quilting Group were busy creating quilts to provide some comfort and joy to folks in our community. Susan and Colleen delivered seven quilts designated to go to the Barbara Bush Pediatric ICU, where each child receives a welcome bag with a toy and a quilt. Joy delivered six quilts to the Barron ..read more
First Lutheran Church Blog
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Lord, have mercy, Christ, have mercy, Lord, have mercy. Once again, Holy One, we cry, how long, O Lord? We gasp, when will it end? Receive and hold our shock, sorrow, and anger in your eternally compassionate heart. God of life, whose presence sustains us in every circumstance, As the sound of gunfire echoed across our neighborhoods ..read more
First Lutheran Church Blog
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Dear First Lutheran friends, My wife, Linda, and I THANK YOU very much for your warm welcome and gracious hospitality upon our arrival here in Portland on Saturday, May 13th! We so appreciated the gift basket we found when we first entered the parsonage kitchen, the delicious lasagna meal we enjoyed on our first evening ..read more